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Iraq is working on a plan to build nuclear reactors in face of widespread blackouts that have sparked social unrest, Bloomberg reported on 8 June. Despite being OPEC’s second biggest oil producer, Iraq is suffering from power shortages and insufficient investment in ageing plants, and needs to meet an expected 50% jump in demand by the end of the decade. Building NPPs could help to close the supply gap.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiraq-looks-to-revive-its-nuclear-programme-8822664
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has ordered the formation of a committee tasked to build a nuclear research reactor, the Iraqi Radioactive Sources Regulatory Authority (IRSRA) said on 24 September.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiraq-sets-up-committee-tasked-with-building-a-research-reactor-8153629
French nuclear fuel cycle company Orano has been authorised to begin dismantling the Georges Besse diffusion enrichment plant at the Tricastin complex in southeastern France. The plant was shut down in June 2012 following 33 years of service and was replaced by the centrifuge-based Georges Besse II plant.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 19 February 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Orano-to-start-dismantling-Georges-Besse-enrichmen
US Centrus Energy Corp (formerly known as USEC) announced on 2 October that it had been awarded a $15 million work authorisation by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) to prepare the K-1600 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for demolition. Centrus has leased K-1600 - the former K-25 site - from the DOE since 2002 to test and demonstrate its uranium enrichment technology. The company has also been conducting centrifuge manufacturing, engineering and design at its own nearby Technology and Manufacturing Centre (TMC) in south Oak Ridge, at the former Boeing plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 05 October 2018
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-doe-awards-centrus-15m-for-decommissioning-work-6786749
AREVA has extracted all of the solid uranium hexafluoride from Eurodif's George Besse I gaseous diffusion enrichment facility at the Tricastin nuclear site in France.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 19 October 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscleanup-milestone-at-george-besse-i-4697256
The majority owner of the operator of the Georges Besse 2 uranium enrichment plant in Tricastin, southwest France, has finalized a loan of EUR 650 million over 10 years with a group of 10 banks.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 30 June 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsareva-finds-finance-for-new-enrichment-plant-4305984